Introductions

[nepenthee]

Let’s get to know each other! :D Not sure what to say? Here are some ideas:

<b>Name:</b>
<b>Collective/Main site:</b>

<b>Latest finished project(s):</b> (site-related)
<b>Next project(s):</b> (outside of this event)

<b>Currents:</b> (any web stuff, a fandom you’re active in, a book you’re reading, things you’re trying out, recent life events etc.)

Note that if this DW community gets reused for future events, this post may be left as a sticky, so you may want to keep things general. (No fear, you'd always be welcome to reintroduce yourself!) For anything related to the event specifically, please use the regular checkpoint posts.

Comments

[lexicalcrow]

Name: Lex
Collective/Main site: Per Sebek is probably the closest thing I have to a 'main site', but it's about my personal religious stuff rather than anything fannish. My fic archive for my main AO3 might become something of a fannish 'main site' when that's done though.

Latest finished project(s): Nothing is technically finished, per se. I have a few fansites and other things I'm working on, but persebek.org is probably the most finished of my sites at the moment.
Next project(s): fic archives! I have main pages up for both my ao3 accounts, but I'm yet to get all the fics up. I want to work on my mcyt one first, as that one's easier to do, and then I'll tackle my main rpf one, which I plan to make a bit more grandiose with lil subshrine pages for each fandom as well as art and other things. It's a much bigger project than the mcyt one.

Currents: Working on fic for spook_me halloween ficathon :D It's a bit of a mess of a draft atm, but I'm working on cleaning it up and finishing it in time for posting. I'm watching and enjoying the new series of Taskmaster, as well as Vampires SMP, that's been very fun. Also playing minecraft in between everything else, either on servers or in my own survival worlds.

[nepenthee]

I can't claim to understand everything (and that's out of your hands), but I would like to remark that I'm impressed how concise and well-structured persebek.org is. It shows that you've maintained the project for a long, long time, and have managed to transfer and distill what I understand to be its essence to its current form. From my own experience, it's not always easy to carry over your own writing from long ago and connect it to what you want to express now. (I revamped oubliette.nu last November and fought a lot with what I'd written in 2016, which I both wanted to maintain and transform.) And you did it with base content from both an Angelfire site and a blog!

Thank you for sharing something so personal. Here's to more projects that will grow old. <3

[lexicalcrow]

Thank you, that's very kind of you to say. <3 I definitely don't expect anyone to understand it all, don't worry. It's been 21 years of love in maintaining it, and I don't like duplicating content too much. There's some stuff there from the blog, but I'm working on building new stuff for the site now, letting it reflect where my practices are now rather than where they were 10 years ago. Plus, yeah, some of the old old pieces are just not good writing, and/or have references from 20 years ago that might not exist anymore. So I decided to start fresh rather than try to rewrite. Sometimes that's easier than wrangling all that content into something new. Plus, I felt I'd run out of regular topics to blog about, so going back to a static website felt like the right move. When you do this long enough, you kind of have a good sense for what's important and what content matters, and I think that's been the biggest part in making it work so well in its current iteration.